1st Edition
Registerial Expertise in Traditional Chinese Medical Translation
By Yan Yue
Copyright 2025
206 Pages
33 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
33 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
33 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Yue’s book explores the nature of translation using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the TCM classic Huangdi Neijing and its various translations. Yue examines in great detail and depth the important factors that cause the differences in the translators’ treatment of language indeterminacies.
Apart from having multi-faceted and fine-grained linguistic analysis, this book also serves as... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Translation complexities 3. Translation as registerial interaction in cross-cultural communication 4. Language indeterminacy: a systemic functional perspective 5. The role of registerial expertise in logical indeterminacy 6. The role of registerial expertise in translators’ epistemic voice 7. The role of registerial expertise cohesion and coherence 8. Conclusion
Biography
Yan Yue has a PhD in linguistics from Macquarie University, Australia. She is currently a Postdoc research fellow at Sun Yat Sen University, China.
